Mr Nicolas Dessaigne
KANDO id: 10498974
Business address
Nicolas Dessaigne
2415 3rd Street
Suite 231
San Francisco, CA 94103
United States
Bio
Nicolas is currently a group partner at YC. He is also the co-founder of Algolia (YC W14), a growth stage Search API used by millions of developers. He led the company as CEO up to 350 people before hiring a successor in 2020. He is still involved in the success of Algolia as Board Director. Originally from France, he currently lives in El Cerrito, CA with his wife and 3 kids. He has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Nantes.
Career
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Algolia Inc - founderDeveloper-friendly and enterprise-grade search API. |